... was encouraged because it was vital to Australia's recovery. The government offered incentives to foreigners who wanted to settle in Australia, such as free land and free passage for former service people. This surge of immigrants increased the population to nearly 3 million people (Grabowski 48). Exports and Growth Industries The years after WWII, Australia enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity. New mineral ... flexibility of the workforce that contributes to higher levels of productivity and efficiency. Whether from natural increase or immigration, population growth can cause a hig...

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... industry, accounting for about 4% of the GDP and employing approximately 10% of the workforce. It contributes much needed support to the Spanish economy. Tourism provides jobs for 8.1% of the active population. In 1999 the number of tourist arrivals went up to an enormous amount. Also accounting for a large part of the workforce are chemicals and petro-chemicals, heavy industry, food and beverages ... passenger vehicles reached an outrageous number, of which more than 80% were exported. The modern labor market in Spain has been characterized by the peak in the creation of new jobs from ...

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... located on the Balkan Peninsula. It covers an area of 110,994 (km2). It currently has a population of 8,210,650 million people (World Book). This number plays a big part in the economic conditions of the country. Bulgaria's statistical data for the economic year of 2000 is as follows ... that Bulgaria is facing is the high rate of unemployment. Currently, 15.9% of the population is unemployed (worldbank.org). This number is high but it is lower than 21.4% that was experienced in 1991. The government should conduct research on the areas where there is an insufficient supply ... Another ...

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... the United States for many years is our nation's percentage of population that is unemployed and receiving welfare. In his 1992 campaign for president, Bill Clinton pledged to "end welfare as we know it." Four years later, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Reconciliation Act of 1996, which did indeed usher in a new approach to welfare for the most prominent of all welfare ... EA Capped entitlement for JOBS Federal share of AFDC and JOBS costs varied inversely with state per capita income Fixed grant Plus: (1) contingency fund and loans for states with high populat...

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... Sweden chose to stay out of it. Finland made large budget cuts and became a part of the first wave to join the union in 2001. In 1998 the Finnish export suffered, as the Asian recession started and the Russian economic difficulties scarred the newly established trade relationship. The Finnish forest ... The recession in the 1990s stroke hard on the working force on Finland. In 1990 the total unemployment rate was as low as 3,2% after the happy 1980s. In 1991 the recession had already affected the markets and the rate had climbed up to 6,6%. 1992 was the year when the recession kicked in ...

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... impact on not just one province, but the entire country. By adding and creating many social programs and policies, Canada became more structured. In 1945, Mackenzie King put the postwar program into effect. This program, including many other social programs was made to help people get back to ... families with children to help cover the costs of childcare. It was Canada's first universal welfare program and was used until 1992. Old age pension came into effect in 1927 and was financed by federal and provincial government. It paid up to about twenty dollars a month and was available to ......

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... nation's largest cities, the proportion of all residents who are poor is close to 20 percent, compared with only 8 percent in suburbs taken as a whole. Because the poverty population is disproportionately concentrated in big cities, the cities are obligated to spend more of their own fiscal resources per resident to combat poverty as compared to smaller cities, especially most suburbs with a lower percentage ... of poor residents. The cost of the concentration of poverty in the big cities drives many non-poor residents and viable ... welfare benefits went to people who were not entitl...

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... . Any person's income depends on the value of that person's service. When the economy is growing, it in turn generates better jobs for the growing population. However for this to happen several other items must come in to place, they include investment in education, training, new production facilitates, and equipment influences the development of new technologies and contributes to rising output ... As for most of the 1980's the United States economy expanded fairly steady and unemployment rates fell from a high of 9.5% in 1982 to a low of 5.2% in 1989. Then in 1990 the U.S. economy sta...

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... , Canada is apart of the new American Empire. Manifest Destiny has always been on the minds of the Americans when its northern neighbor was involved, although the United States failed in its attempts to annex Canada; it somehow has gained unlimited economic power and control over Canada. Through migration and immigration, there has been a significant degree of intermingling between the ... sold to American companies because it was cheaper to produce goods in there rather than Canada. In 1992, over 250 000 Canadians lost their jobs because of such relocation of Canadian companies. When Ca...

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... decreased, although higher world oil prices more than compensated for the lower quantities in terms of export revenues. Encouraging foreign investment in oil exploration and production is a top priority, as much of the country remains unexplored. Coffee Coffee production has been falling since 1991/1992, when it reached an all-time record of 18 million bags. Since then, it has been declining at ... an average annual rate of 6 percent. Coffee prices to the growers in the first half of 1999 were lower than in the same period in 1998, but strengthened in the second half of the year. In Feb...

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